Creativity across disciplines

I’m cross-posting this from the Academic section of my site, since this obviously ties in directly to my writing career:  I’ve been including presentations from creative professionals in different fields as a part of my course on creative writing for many years…I’m happy that I finally remembered to actually film parts of these presentations this […]

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Miscellaneous update time

Hi all, It’s been a while since I’ve been able to update here–I’ve been swamped with work, and have been saving most of my free time for family.  But I haven’t been idle over the past few weeks.  Some details: 1.  I finished and submitted a new article to the SFWA Bulletin, this one on […]

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Happy holidays to all!

Hi everyone, I’ve only just surfaced from a. submitting final grades, b. submitting my article for the next SFWA Bulletin, and c. revising novel manuscripts…and now I’m going to take a day or two to relax!  But I’ve got a short story coming out in an upcoming anthology which I have to finish, and I […]

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Speculation…

Just a quick reminder to check out some of what’s going on over at Speculate!, the show I run with fellow speculative fiction author Brad Beaulieu; we just got done with a sequence of shows on Night Shade Books‘ new anthology The Book of Cthulhu, and we’ve been having a great time doing the podcast […]

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Worldcon Panels

Just a quick post to let everyone know that I’ve posted some new panel appearances on my Media page from this most recent Worldcon–there were some really interesting panels in Reno, and I’m glad to finally get the chance to share them here.  If you’re interested, please head over and let me know what you […]

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Worldcon report

Given the attention Worldcon traditionally gets, you probably haven’t been lacking for reports from con-goers–I’ve read about twenty of them myself, and that was a pretty quick skim of the ones available.  But I promised my own account of the happenings in Reno, and I’m finally geting the chance to deliver on that promise now.  […]

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Gen Con Report, 2011 Edition

Well, August is drawing to a close, we’ve just ducked the worst of a hurricane, and information about school scheduling is starting to flow into my inbox.  That must mean the summer is almost over, and with it much of the convention going season.  But this one was a great one, with Gen Con and […]

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